Let's Talk Movies
Let's Talk Movies
The first time I saw Mathew ‘Mao’ Adeboye’s film, tiny drops of tears invited itself to the corridor of my eyes. Having lost promising secondary school classmates to avoidable death and seen firsthand youth in my community lose their lives…
This is an attempt to write about a film I had high expectations for, but with almost every Nollywood film we are reminded to lower those expectations so that we are not disappointed. However, with Breath of Life, I refused…
Written by Francisca Eleyele and directed by ‘Chukwu Martin, Abe Ni is about one of the most dehumanizing cultural practices still rampant today: female genital mutilation. It refers to the cultural practice of removing whether in part or in whole,…
By the time you finish reading this piece, you might disagree with it. As humans with distinct cinematic tastes and cravings, disagreement over preference is constant. Listicles, of this nature, are conduits of personal obsession. As such, it falls prey…
In the first scene of the 1596 play, The Merchant of Venice, one of the main characters, Antonio, likens the world to a stage: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;A stage where every man must play a…